On Jacobin, radio today we talk to Christian Parenti, now teaching in the economics program at John J College

about the catastrophic effects of climate change already upon us.

Christian has written suggestively in Jacobin about what the near future will look like if we fail

to act. But he says that technological solutions already exist, that the state will

have to step up and that brings up the question of political

power and political will. We'll touch on these issues and more in looking at the

climate catastrophes from Harvey to Irma, from Katrina to Houston, to the fires that are raging around the globe. Welcome to Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Weisman Radio. I'm Susie Weisman

Wiesman and very pleased to have Christian Parenti join us. We're going to be discussing what some may want to call the

eco-poculips or apocalyptic ecological crises right now. If you're looking and if you know we are in the midst of hurricanes and floods and fires and earthquakes now in Mexico.

And what does it all mean?

Christian Parenti is a professor in the economics program at John Jay College.

And his latest book is The Tropic of Chaos, Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence.

And he has spent a long time now exploring climate change and its violence as it interacts with neoliberalism and other things he's written

three previous books lockdown America police and prisons and the soft cage

surveillance in America and the freedom shadows and hallucinations in occupied

Iraq and as you can tell by this intro Christian's interests may seem to have

been eclectic but they follow a threat and we'll get him to talk about

that and he was embedded in Afghanistan and Iraq he's been all over the world he was

in Katrina after the flood there and so we're going to begin with all of that.

Welcome to Jacobin Radio, Christian Perinti.

Thank you very much for having me on.

I should also let the listeners know before we begin that you have a series of spectacular

...